How Would One Find Solace In Being Enslaved
The misconception that slave owners treated the enslaved well enough is willful madness
If you are truly stuck on oddly insensitive beliefs about the conditions and appropriacies of enslavement, ask yourself; Would you or your family and loved ones be willing or able to endure such a life lived with dignity intact?
In this Washington Post piece published 3 years ago, members of the King family traced their enslaved ancestors to a slaveowner named Thomas Griffith in the 19th century. The direct descendants of Griffith still own and live on the property in Montgomery County, Maryland where the cramped two-story log cabin cased the enslaved. It is an intriguing and riveting story that leaves you wondering what happened next but contextually since that was just 2019 and this is 2022, more or less things remain the same.
What perplexed and really piqued me to write this was that the Beckers who is said to feel a mix of pride and shame about their family’s past seemed mostly aloof and unconcerned until this point about the enslaved humans who were forced to toil their lives away under slavery.
